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the snout to the orbit posteriorly; snout one time and a half the 

 diameter of the orbit; forehead slightly concave; ear-opening 

 very small, roundish. Head covered with uniform small granules, 

 much larger on the snout. Rostral quadrangular, not quite twice 

 so broad as high, with a median cleft above; nostril bordered 

 by the rostral, the first labial and three enlarged nasals. Eleven 

 to twelve upper and nine or ten lower labials; mental small, 

 triangular, not larger than the labials; three or four transverse 

 rows of small hexagonal chin-shields. Body elongate, covered 

 with small granules above. Ventral scales small, rounded, 

 imbricate. Male with a short angular series of 1 1 praeanal 

 pores, separated from 12 femoral pores on each side. Tail 

 cylindrical, slightly depressed at the base, covered with uniform 

 small flat scales, largest below. Limbs moderate; digits one 

 third webbed, dilated, inferiorly with angularly curved, undiv- 

 ided lamellae, 10 — 12 under the median toes. 



Pale reddish-brown above, with irregular dark brown spots, 

 a dark line in the loreal region. Tail with dark markings. 

 Belly brownish- white, many of the scales brown-dotted; throat 

 and lips spotted with dark brown. Length of head and body 

 42 mm.; tail 44 mm. 



Habitat: New Guinea (Merauke!, Port Moresby). — Mur- 

 ray Island. 



4. Gecko rhacophorus Boulenger. 



Gecko rhacophorus^ Boulenger, Ann. Nat. Hist (7) IV 1899, p. 451. 



Gecko rhacophorus^ Hanitsch, J. Straits. Asiat. Soc. XXXIV 1900, pi. i fig. I. 



Head moderately large, one and one third time as long as 

 broad; snout longer than the distance between the eye and the 

 ear-opening, one time and a half the diameter of the orbit; ear- 

 opening round, its diameter one third that of the eye. Head, body 

 and limbs covered with minute granules intermixed with small, 

 round, smooth tubercles. Spine-like tubercles on the sides of 

 the head, largest above the ear. Rostral a little more than 

 twice as broad as deep, without median cleft; nostril bordered 

 by several small scales. Nine upper and ten lower labials; 

 mental small, pentagonal; a series of six small chin-shields. 

 A moderately developed scalloped membrane on each side of 

 the body, scaled like the body and fringed on the edge. Body 

 much depressed. Ventral scales flat juxtaposed granules. An 



